Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners does not go that route. It opens with a shot of a snowy forest, where a deer quietly noses around for food. Into the frame comes the barrel of a shotgun.
Just so, semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning are, pretty clearly, different sorts of theories. The term âtheory of meaningâ has, in the recent history of philosophy, been used to stand for both semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning.
1. Linguistics. a. The study or science of meaning in language. b. The competence of a speaker with regard to the interpretation of the meaning of linguistic structures. c. The study of relationships between signs and symbols and what they represent. Also called semasiology. 2.The meaning or the interpretation of a word, sentence, or other language form: We're basically agreed; let's not quibble over semantics.. the branch of semiotics or logic dealing with the relationship between signs or symbols and what they denote. 3. the meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence, etc.: Let's not argue about semantics. 4. general semantics.